Amaizing! :D

Thanks! It was a lot of fun to do and I'm hoping the people at the party will really enjoy it. :)

They probobly will :P

That's a pretty impressive whim! I want to do a large-scale thing too, now...

You should! It's really fun! I did a whole tent for burning man.

Except it will totally spoil you. You won't want to work small ever again. :)


But if you do. Definetely get a paint gun as well as an airbrush.

I did my entire burning man tent using a Badger Anthem 155 airbrush and it took forever.

This weekend I broke down and bought a Badger 250 paint gun to do wide area fills and that made things go SO much faster and it was a LOT more fun. Less cleaning the brush and stuff.

I still did all the detail work with the 155 though. If you look at it in person you can actually read all the text on the back of the DJ's mix board and stuff. :)

Thanks for the instrument advice, I don't know too many people to ask who work with airbrush, and need more experience myself. It seems like you've got a great handle on details from what I see here, too... Also, doing a tent would be good fun, I'd love to have seen it!

Airbrushes are really fiddly until you get the hang of them. Your best bet is to start with watercolor or ink.

Acrylic paints you have to get the thickness just right and have the right kinds of binders or they jam up the gun and drive you totally crazy.

When I was working on the tent, I experimented with a bunch of stuff and finally found that if I used everclear to thin my paint instead of water, I could make it a lot thinner and it'd dry quick enough coming out of the gun that I could do layers pretty quickly without getting a lot of bleed or runs and it doesn't seem to mess up the binding agent any (or at least I've run my tent through the washing machine a couple of times and it still looks good) :) That's about all the secrets I have tho. :)

Ah, yes, makes sense that alcohol would make a good and quick-drying thinner. Hey, thanks for sharing your secrets, I shall put them to use in my wicked ways. =D

I saw this at FC, up behind the DJ booth in the Chill Lounge. It looked great! Especially with all the blacklight flooding that room.

Really? I was Dj'ing! How did I miss this!

It must've looked way different in blacklight

It was behind the DJ booth, but a bit high on the back wall. :-P

Were you the DJ who I talked to briefly, and asked what song you were playing? I'm trying to remember. I asked about Tataria by Synsun.

Ahh yes that was me!

Wow. I'm not sure how you could have missed it. :) Neonbunny had me set it up back stage behind the DJs. There were two big blacklights there. :)

When were you DJing BTW? I was there dancing for quite a while.

You know I think I did look at it a bunch of times but I was so focused on getting my gear setup.

Yep I was the first DJ :)

Oh okay. I was helping Neon set up. Fluoro red hair and a weird-looking great coat. I was drinking champagne with my friend (The fop in the gold brocade and lace) You likely couldn't have missed him. :)